Other bits and pieces coming with the balance update

Hope that Xp fix work I don´t have money to for new pc And I absolutely don´t have enough money to just throw them away on games that doesn´t work .I know you guys have a lot of work with bugs and stuff but there is a lot of people with win XP that would also love to test bugs and help you with game

 

So is the platinum spawn going to be fixed?? Or am I just missing something in the game where u can get it?? (other than chests)

 

Soo, do you guys know if our saves will be reset yet? I kinda wanna know

 

Please optimize it for older computers! I can't run it =/ I get a graphcal error.

 

I really wished you put out the xp update in sooner really. Its disappointing that my mate cant play the game and the patch gets pushed back because of content and rebalancing. You could have at least just sent out the xp update as a hotfix

 

This is usually, well always the best course of action.

 

They said don't play Stage 1 if you have a older computer. Don't expect optimizations in this stage of the game. Coding does not work that way, optimizing now would be a complete waste of time.

Also if you get a graphical error your hardware simply may just be too old, I'm not sure on the requirements, or if it requires a new-ish shader model. I'd assume your hardware would need to be over 10 years old for this to be a problem though, and if that's the case, don't expect it to be fixed.

 

The baby monster aspect seems cool, maybe you could also work on making some species domesticateable? It would be cool to raise an randomly generated alien that you found in a random cave. Perhaps these 'domesticate friendly' aliens would either require you to get them when they are young or maybe in an egg. I think that would be very cool. Cant wait to see the update! P.S. I'm still searching for the legendary , at least i hope they are in the game at the moment, but... yeah.

 

Try this. Just move it into win32 folder in Starbound folder.It helped me.

 

I don't care about any time, I already know it's coming out today/tomorrow, all I care about in this update is the windows XP fix, because I just got this game yesterday and was dissapointed to find that it was broken. Then again I should've expected this from a game that was in beta.

Anyway, that's all I have to say about the matter.

 

I mean I feel like the "estimated" in ETA is there for a reason... But I do get what you are saying although I'd rather have a less accurate ETA than none at all, the rest of the community would probably rather have it vise-versa.

 

How soon is "soon"?

 

This is coming late in beta/at final release, actually.

 

For those of you still waiting on the XP issue being resolved, be grateful! It could have taken them a lot longer to fix it.
They could have waited until phase 2 to even begin resolving the issues. Be happy, because it sounds like it was a big problem for them to tackle and they're managing it - for YOU.

Also, can't wait for the update to go live! The baby monster addition was a nice surprise to me, and I feel it will diversify the way we look at the monsters even more.
I'm also excited to test out the new solution to combat balancing.

 

what about the bugfixing? what has been fixed? is there something different in the UI ?

 

Ah! I've been calling that one WinXP or Win 5.1, and I play many RPGS, so I didn't realize with "XP" alone.

Win XP is losing official support on April 2014, so they keeping support for it after that would be a kindness.

 

Fantastic! I love these updates, keep them coming! Even if it's something silly seeming, I love seeing any update in regards to the development of the game! Doing an LP/Machinima series of the game atm and waiting for the wipe before continuing with it.

 

IA IS a core system. Honestly, if you were at one point to say, oh by the way, the monsters are now behaving totally differently, don't you think it would change the way some (not to say a lot) stuff are implemented? It's still a game that focus on exploration AND combat. And today, i'm sorry to say but the combat is not inexistent per se but clearly flawed, it's a problem when you have some stuff like shield & sword kind of play dynamic...

So yeah, adding baby is not exactly what i would call a "core" item compared to fixing the IA...

I know it's hard, but the more they wait, well, it won't be harder to code, but clearly people will complain about it, which on this particular aspect i wouldn't be too keen to reprimand.
Like stated above it seems to me a big stuff to put (like they did with this armor/tier change) and should be considered a priority (mostly because it does not reflect very good on the game either, i mean honestly, if i were to show the game to some people they would be like : meh). I know it's beta, but it's been in development for a while now...

 

Baby monsters will be nice, if we can raise them to be pets or something. I have been having a good time coexisting with the neutral weirdnesses in the planets!

 

Pets have been planned for a long time, and you can even see pet slots in your inventory.
It's just an another thing that's not in this phase of the beta.